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The Oder (/ ˈ oʊ d ər / OH-dər, German: ⓘ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and Polish: Odra; [a] Upper Sorbian: Wódra) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary the Warta . [ 1 ]
The Oder–Neisse line (German: Oder-Neiße-Grenze, Polish: granica na Odrze i Nysie Łużyckiej) is an unofficial term for the modern border between Germany and Poland. The line generally follows the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers, meeting the Baltic Sea in the north.
Silesia is situated along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border. The region contains many historical landmarks and UNESCO World Heritage Sites . It is also rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas.
For people living in the medieval Northern Holy Roman Empire and its precursors, especially for the Saxons, a Wend (Wende) was a Slav living in the area west of the River Oder, an area later entitled Germania Slavica, settled by the Polabian Slav tribes (mentioned above) in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni, further ...
Alte Oder is a branch on the river Oder in Brandenburg, Germany. [1] It drains the Oderbruch basin, flowing northwards to the confluence with the Oder near Hohensaaten . It is one of several branches of the Oder named "Alte Oder".
The River Oder, at low water levels (predominantly between June and early September) [30] [31] forms eyots north of Jerzynowa, Kępa and Srebrna Islands. [32] The locality is located in the Brzeg Plain ( Rownina Brzeska ), part of the Silesian Lowlands . [ 33 ]
The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 billion (3.8 billion euros in the Czech Republic and Poland and 330 million euros in Germany).
Oder→ Baltic Sea The river Warta ( / ˈ v ɑːr t ə / VAR -tə , Polish: [ˈvarta] ⓘ ; German : Warthe [ˈvaʁtə] ⓘ ; Latin : Varta ) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly through the Polish Plain in a north-westerly direction to flow into the Oder at Kostrzyn nad Odrą on Poland's border with Germany .